Off and on topic ...
but I was listening to a Radio 4 podcast - (possibly the usually excellent "Infinite Monkey Cage") recently, and one of the non-science guests made the classic faux-pax of thinking "radioactive for billions of years" was somehow the "bad" radiation.
I waited till the end, but not one of the panel (which was two guest chemists, but surely Prof. Cox could have interjected) pointed out that the longer the half-life, the more stable an isotope is and less harmful.
It's not the stuff with a half life of 1,000,000 years that worries me as much as the stuff with a half life of 1 year.
Just grated as it means there will be some folk that will continue in their wrong thinking and stand in the way of the UK being powered by nuclear forever ...
As you were.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
